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Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.
We speak with historian Dr. Kimberley Ellis about Tulsa, domestic terrorism and reparations. Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, a Black economic and cultural mecca—until May 31, 1921 when a white mob decimated the community. Later we hear a talk featuring BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors. She discusses her memoir, When They Call … Continued
We speak with historian Dr. Kimberley Ellis about Tulsa, domestic terrorism and reparations. Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District, known as Black Wall Street, a Black economic and cultural mecca—until May 31, 1921 when a white mob decimated the community. Later we hear a talk featuring BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors. She discusses her memoir, When They Call … Continued
We speak with independent journalist Georgia Fort about the murder of George Floyd and what has happened a year after his death.
We talk with local activists about the importance of abolition and how to obtain it. Featured speakers/guests: Dr. Cesar Cruz, OG Rev, comrade Malik Washington, Regellio.
We speak with Refa 1 and Senegalese artist and organizer mad Zoe about demonstrations and unrest in Senegal. We hear a speech from author Isabel Wilkerson.
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
We talk to the grand children of Yuri Kochiyama about Black & Asian solidarity. Later we hear from civil rights leader Malcom X. The speech recorded on 2/14/1965 at Ford Auditorium in Detroit, “Friends and Enemies,” one of Malcolm X’s last speeches given in Detroit in 1965 a week before he was killed. Guests: … Continued
We speak with local activist Lubna Morra about the demonstration in front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco, Ca.
We speak with James Taylor Ph.D about the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Mississippi’s abortion case, a major challenge to the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. And later from the archives, a conversation between Professor Angela Davis and the University of Southern California’s Dr. Michele Turner at … Continued
Building on Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to Redemption, Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, LONG TIME COMING: Reckoning with Race in America grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five chapters—each addressed … Continued
